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Head of the Department of Film & Screen Media, University College Cork
Dr Ciara Chambers is Head of the Department of Film & Screen Media, University College Cork and also works with Atticus Education, the digital education company established by Oscar-winning film producer Lord David Puttnam. She is currently working on the Make Film History project in partnership with Kingston University, BBC, NI Screen, the Irish Film Institute and the British Film Institute.
Project Manager of Film Hub NI (FAN Champion area for Screen Heritage
Born and raised in Belfast, Hugh Odling-Smee has been the Project Manager for Film Hub NI, part of the BFI Film Audience Network, since 2013 and is based at the Queen’s Film Theatre. Hugh has a long pedigree of presenting and interpreting the cultural and social history of Northern Ireland in film, theatre and literature across the last 25 years. As an arts manager Hugh lead the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive at the Linen Hall Library, was Creative Producer of Kabosh Theatre Company and was the first director of the Belfast Book Festival.
Head of Heritage & Archive at Northern Ireland Screen,
Head of Heritage & Archive at Northern Ireland Screen, Francis has over two decades’ experience in screen archive and culture roles. He is a Director of Film Archives UK, a member of the Royal Television Society Archive Group and Northern Ireland representative on the British Film Institute’s Nations and Regions Archive working group.